# Kilgore Creek

- **MSHA mine ID:** 4407290
- **Status:** Temporarily Idled
- **Type / commodity:** Surface / Coal (Bituminous)
- **Location:** Dickenson, VA
- **Operator:** Omega Surface Mining, LLC
- **Controller:** Omega Holdings LLC
- **Public source rows linked:** 512
- **Source coverage:** 15 / 20
- **Generated:** 2026-10-13T11:26:59.401Z

## Current entity hierarchy

**Omega Holdings LLC (0098593) → Omega Surface Mining, LLC (0119332) → Kilgore Creek (4407290)**

Current identity source: `msha-mines`. This is a current snapshot, not a historical claim.

## Controller and operator valid-time history

- **Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. → Paramont Coal Company Virginia, LLC:** 2011-09-23 through 2018-08-16; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407290; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.
- **Omega Holdings LLC → Omega Surface Mining, LLC:** 2018-08-17 through current/open; derived from co-tenure at mine 4407290; source `msha-controller-operator-history`.

- History rows: 2
- Typed edges: 6
- Interval anomalies: 0
- Valid-time bounds: inclusive; date granularity; null end means open-ended in the upstream history row; not independent proof of present control.
- Transaction-time observation: 2026-10-13T11:19:05.459773+00:00.

## Assessment signals

1. **SAFETY — 0 since 2021:** Accidents and injuries 0 historical accident/injury rows; 0 coded fatalities and 0 lost days across the published record.
2. **COMPLIANCE — 0 since 2021:** Violations and penalties 32 violation rows across the full record; 13 carry an S&S flag and $14,301 appears in current assessed amounts.
3. **HEALTH — 31 samples:** Occupational health samples 16 coal dust; 1 coal quartz; 14 noise. 0 personal-sample rows have a published C/E ratio above 1; 1 noise rows have an action-level or PEL dose above 100%. These are separate measures, not a silica exceedance count. Silica results and sample status are shown separately.
4. **PRODUCTION — 0 tons:** Quarterly production and employment 9K employee hours and 20 summed average employees across reported subunits in the latest published quarter.
5. **LEGAL — 12 linked rows:** Contests, conferences and decisions 6 contested-violation rows, 6 civil-penalty docket/decision rows, and 0 conference records linked by issuance number.
6. **CONTRACTORS — 4 linked entities:** Contractors Contractors are linked through this mine’s violation or accident records. Their production and hours cover all their operations, so they are not included in this mine’s totals.
7. **INSPECTIONS — 4 since 2021:** Inspections 21 inspection events and 290 published inspection hours across the historical record.

## EIA annual operating context

No matched record in the 2024 EIA coal-public workbook. This may be inapplicable for a non-coal operation.

## Recent Title 30 crosswalk

Snapshot current through 2026-08-19.

- **30 CFR 48.23 — Training plans; time of submission; where filed; information required; time for approval; method for disapproval; commencement of training; approval of instructors.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-H/part-48/subpart-B/section-48.23
- **30 CFR 71.206 — Quarterly sampling; designated work positions.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-71/subpart-C/section-71.206
- **30 CFR 77.1605 — Loading and haulage equipment; installations.** (3 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1605
- **30 CFR 77.1606 — Loading and haulage equipment; inspection and maintenance.** (5 retained recent rows) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-Q/section-77.1606
- **30 CFR 77.208 — Storage of materials.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-C/section-77.208
- **30 CFR 77.904 — Identification of circuit breakers.** (1 retained recent row) — https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-30/chapter-I/subchapter-O/part-77/subpart-J/section-77.904

## Source coverage

- **Addresses of Record:** 1 rows; 2020-02-13 through 2020-02-13; source ID `msha-addresses`
- **Assessed Violations:** 31 rows; 2012-02-14 through 2019-08-05; source ID `msha-assessed-violations`
- **Civil Penalty Dockets and Decisions:** 6 rows; 2012-12-27 through 2013-02-13; source ID `msha-civil-penalty-dockets-decisions`
- **Coal Dust Samples:** 16 rows; 2012-06-13 through 2019-08-06; source ID `msha-coal-dust-samples`
- **Contested Violations:** 6 rows; 2012-06-07 through 2012-06-14; source ID `msha-contested-violations`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 309 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-quarterly`
- **Contractor Employment and Production — Yearly:** 52 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-contractor-production-yearly`
- **Controller and Operator History:** 2 rows; 2011-09-23 through 2018-08-17; source ID `msha-controller-operator-history`
- **Inspections:** 21 rows; 2011-10-24 through 2026-08-20; source ID `msha-inspections`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Quarterly:** 17 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-quarterly`
- **Mine Employment and Production — Yearly:** 3 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mine-production-yearly`
- **Mines:** 1 rows; unknown through unknown; source ID `msha-mines`
- **Noise Samples:** 14 rows; 2012-06-06 through 2019-03-13; source ID `msha-noise-samples`
- **Quartz Samples — Coal:** 1 rows; 2019-03-13 through 2019-03-13; source ID `msha-quartz-samples`
- **Violations:** 32 rows; 2012-02-14 through 2019-09-26; source ID `msha-violations`

## Caveats

- This is public-record decision support, not legal advice or an official MSHA record.
- Missing data can indicate no event, publication delay, an unresolved identity, or inapplicability.
- Contractor production data is entity-level and is not attributed to this mine.

## Alternate representations

- HTML: `/mines/kilgore-creek-4407290`
- JSON: `/api/v1/mines/kilgore-creek-4407290`
- Silica records, units, sample status and quarterly means: `/api/v1/mines/4407290/silica` (snapshot year by default; `?year=all` for history; `&format=csv` for all matching rows)
- Relationship JSON: `/api/v1/mines/4407290/relationships`
- MCP resource: `mine://4407290/assessment`
- Complete Title 30 corpus: `/data/title30-sections.json`